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Weathers Y. "Sonny" Sykes, 62, a senior executive at the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Co., was chairman of the Michael Reese Health Plan. When he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1949, he became the first black pledged to an all-white campus fraternity. Mr. Sykes, a resident of South Shore, died Monday at home. "He was very much an intellectual and an avid reader," Vernon Williams, a brother-in-law, said. "He was an aficionado of military history and World War II in particular."

Before he took to the stage at a "Beautiful" contest in Daytona Beach, a well-oiled William Chandler flexed and showed off the five brands burnt into his skin. Known as "Pee Wee," the short, muscular South Carolina State University student had variations of the horseshoe-shaped Greek letter omega-the sign of his college fraternity-branded into both of his arms and his buttocks. Brands, long used among black fraternity members to show their dedication to an organization, are believed to have evolved from the African use of tribal marks.